The Sinner Dies at His Own Hand

Page 763-764 especially 764 paragraphs 1-2 Of Desire of Ages. Do these texts conflict with your position of God the Father killing the selfish and rebellious children as punishment in the end? Page 763 bottom: Ezek. 28:6-19 "I will destroy thee, O covering cherub..." Is this a threat from the Father or a prediction based on Nature's (God's) Law? If one reads this statement from the Bible in context to what Ellen white says on page 764 in the Desire of Ages, it would not be a threat but a statement of what sin will do to them-the rebellious. It is Nature's Law that sin kills. This is a law that cannot be changed. Just as life and liberty are rights and that fact cannot be changed. "Sin places Satan and all who unite with him so out of harmony with God that His mere presence is as a consuming fire." He does not proactively judge and kill off his rebellious children. He simple stands in front of them. Their character is so screwed up--they cannot live before Him. She says, "They recieve the results of their own choice. (God honors their choice. There's no arguing with the rebellious children about their choice. They're not going to change.) The glory of Him, (His other-centeredness) who is love will destroy them. Had Satan and his host been left to reap the full result of their sin, they would have perished; but it would not have been apparent to heavenly beings that this was the inevitable (certain, non-arbitrary) result of sin." (Note here that she doesn't write that God would have killed them. She says they would have perished as a result of their sin).